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RADIO:
The Fourth Door Visual Systems: http://www.voiceamerica.com/show/1974/the-visual-workplace
podcast: Visual Lean Metrics - Shingo Award-winning, clear and simple, powerful - http://www.voiceamerica.com/episode
/59911/visual-problem-solving-2-a-people-grabbing-focus-doorway-4-continueshttp://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/58336/the-big-squeeze-strategic-sourcinghttp://va.radiopilot.net/voiceamerica/vepisode.aspx?aid=58336VoiceAmerica with Patricia E. Moody, talking about The Big Squeeze, Ten Ways to Cut Your Spend 10% Right Now! strategic sourcing, and spend management. If you missed the show you can listen to the Podcast - just go to VoiceAmerica.Why is spend management so scary? I'm interviewed on VoiceAmerica.com Radio - Beyond Lean! - talking The Big Squeeze, real savings stories from the experts, the people in manufacturing and supply management. ***IN PRINT:Industry Week, Ever wonder why Honda delivers consistently higher profit margins than Toyota? "Supplier Relationships Key to Success and HIgher Profit Margins", http://www.industryweek.com/blog/supplier-relationships-key-hondas-healthy-profit-marginsn July Manufacturing Digital, "Why does Kaizen Endure in the Modern Manufacturing Environment?"http://www.manufacturingdigital.com/lean/why-does-kaizen-endure-in-the-modern-manufacturing-environmentGood news (if you are an Emu) – Google has informed us of the results of their photo poll and Emu is the favorite 5 to 1; second place goes to the black and white Big Blackfoot River shot! Congrats to Emu on being so photogenic, and to Cindy Jimmerson for choosing a stunning place to live!More good book news - The Perfect Engine now available in French, Japanese and Portuguese - we're global! Available through Buyers Meeting Point, ttp://www.buyersmeetingpoint.com/, BMP Publications The Incredible Payback, Breakthrough Partnering, The Big Squeeze, and The Purchasing Machine.Now available on iTunes, The Technology Machine, Moody and Morley and The Purchasing Machine, Nelson, Moody and Stegner: http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/patricia-e.-moody/id358493233?mt=11We are pleased to announce that our publisher Amacom has successfully negotiated the English-language reprint rights for our book The Incredible Payback, by Nelson, Moody and Stegner with BPI India Pvt. Ltd through Edgewater Editorial Services (agent) for distribution. The Incredible Payback will now be published in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia.Breakthrough Partnering, Creating Collective Enterprise Advantage, Patricia E. Moody,
now available in paperback, THE seminal book on building strong customer/supplier
partnerships! http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000449727
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The Mill Kids favorite swimming spot: The Nissitissit in East Pepperell at the site of Mr. Lawrence's grist mill, one of two remaining mills in the town, the other being Pepperell Braiding Company (still active). During the first Industrial Revolution the Nissitissit supported three water-power mill villages, hosting lumber and grist mills, rag and later pulp paper, a harp mill, and, moving into integrated turbines, Blakes Machine Shops. Water-power dams, plus chemicals and metals used in various processes were thought to have killed off this area's fresh-water oysters, but they were "rediscovered" in the construction of the replacement bridge (the platform from which this photo was taken). The Nissitissit is now a swimmable Class B river stocked with trout each spring! And there are fresh-water oysters somewhere down there (but we won't tell you where)! A Mill Girl at Blue Heron Journal